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RSS FeedsStatement by President Michael D. Higgins on the Centenary Anniversary of the Sack of Balbriggan
(WorldNews Europe)

 
 

20 september 2020 10:05:27

 
Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the Centenary Anniversary of the Sack of Balbriggan
(WorldNews Europe)
 


Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the Centenary Anniversary of the Sack of Balbriggan Date: Sun 20th Sep, 2020 | 00:51 Today, exactly 100 years ago, an event occurred that would become a defining and exemplary episode in the Irish War of Independence. The sack of Balbriggan, which occurred on the night of the 20th September 1920 and continued into the morning of the 21st, was an act of collective punishment, a `reprisal`, a term that would become the mark of a policy aimed at subjugation, installation of fear in a public that had in its midst those that sought independence. That September night in Balbriggan, on which we reflect today, was a day of rampant violence and carnage...


 
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